SUMER

SUMER A CIVILIZATION?

• Yes.
• It had all of the ingredients needed for a civilization.
• The ingredients are:
• Geographic Boundaries, Governments, Economy, High Population,
• Social Classes, Culture, and a System of Record Keeping.

GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES

• (Shown in the background.)

GOVERNMENTS

• Each city-state of Sumer had its own ruler, which were equivalent to kings.

ECONOMY

• Sumerians had a system of money and trade.
• Their currency looked like metal coil.
• They had surpluses of food and goods so things could be sold with the system.

HIGH POPULATION

• Lots of people could live in one place.
• Sumer had separate city-states because it was so big do there was a lot of people.

SOCIAL CLASSES

• The social classes in Sumer were (from highest to lowest):
• Rulers... High priests & nobles... Officials, scribes & minor priests...
• Craftsmen... Servants, laborers, & peasants.

CULTURE

• Sumer made sculptures of various things (like image behind),
• and Sumerians had religion, since they had made offerings to gods,
• plus, they made sacrifices and had religious ceremonies.
• I believe their learning system was just to teach each other.

SYSTEM OF RECORD KEEPING

• They had a writing system (shown in picture),
• A counting system, since they came up with the '60' counting system
• And they had a time/calendar system because they used the 60 counting system for it.

SUMER IS A CIVILIZATION!